According to the Media, Most Economic News is Bad News
November 8th, 2005 1:16 AM
Regardless of economic data, press accounts are typically negative and pessimistic.The economy has been growing at a very strong clip since October 2001. Real estate prices are at their highest levels in history, as are homeownership and Americans’ average net worth. Unemployment also is lower than the average during any of the past three decades. Yet Americans are very down, and one third even…
Totenberg Calls Ginsburg a “Pretty Conservative Liberal” and Alito
November 6th, 2005 2:13 PM
On NBC’s “Meet The Press” this morning, host Tim Russert stocked his panel with three left-of-center journalists – Nina Totenberg of NPR, Ron Brownstein of the Los Angeles Times, and David Gregory of NBC News – to discuss the events of the week. When they got to the nomination of Samuel Alito to replace retiring justice Sandra Day O’Connor, Russert mentioned that when Bill Clinton was president…
Networks Ignore Democrats Defending Racist Slam of Black GOP Senate Ca
November 3rd, 2005 4:57 PM
Eight days ago, Steve Gilliard, a liberal blogger critical of Lt. Governor Michael Steele (R-MD), a black conservative seeking the Republican senatorial nomination in his state, altered a photograph of the candidate to portray a minstrel in blackface, and accompanied it with the caption, "I's Simple Sambo and I's running for the Big House."[Gilliard has since removed his original artwork, but…
ABC and NBC Ignore DeLay Ruling During Their Evening News Broadcasts
November 2nd, 2005 12:08 AM
Former Republican house majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Texas) had a large victory in court yesterday, but ABC and NBC didn’t think it was important enough to include in their evening news broadcasts. As reported by the Washington Post: "Former House majority leader Tom DeLay (R-Tex.) won an early round in his money-laundering and conspiracy trial Tuesday by getting a judge aligned with Democratic…
Safire and Brooks Nail the Week’s Key Issues on Today’s “Meet th
October 30th, 2005 12:14 PM
For those of you who haven’t seen this morning’s “Meet the Press,” I highly recommend that you do so that you can see William Safire at his best, as well as some great incites from David Brooks. What follows are key statements from the two of them concerning Plamegate, and the events of the week.